A RAGING radio caller attacked Nigel Farage for defending Russia and Vladimir Putin, despite the ex-Ukip leader insisting it was the best way forward for Britain.

Calling into Mr Farage’s new LBC show, Peter, a Ukrainian living in the UK, blasted the Brexiteer for “trying to appease” Vladimir Putin.

The outburst comes after the MEP called for Donald Trump to meet with the Russian leader and suggested a close relationship between the two could only be positive.

Peter said: ”It's beggars belief that a politician of your calibre comes on national radio and tries to appease the person who murdered journalists, murdered opposition politicians in this country, invades other countries, takes part of their countries.

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"And you're trying to defend him? It just beggars belief."

But Mr Farage dismissed the comments and fired back. He said: "Peter, I don't want to appease him. I don't want to defend him.

"I think the future integrity of Nato is actually very important and I think there is a lot of work to be done on Nato, which has found itself in a position where its members now think they can get away without paying the membership fee.

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"I wouldn't want to live in Putin's Russia. I don't approve of many of the things that he's done.

"But the European Union have dragged Nato in their wake and have pursued a very ignorant, a very foolish foreign policy by constant eastwards expansion and trying to get countries that border Putin's Russia to join our politican union in the West."

Poland is the latest country to receive thousands of Nato troops in a bit to battle Russian aggression in the region.

More than 3,000 American soldiers and tanks arrived on Thursday as part of Barack Obama’s response to reassure concerned Nato allies.

Around 800 British soldiers, with tanks, drones and armoured vehicles, are set to arrive in nearby Estonia in May in further attempts to reassure Baltic states after Russia annexed the Ukrainian territory of Crimea in 2014.